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For the foreseeable future, I am sticking with 5.0, definitely without Tasha (for my tastes that book was the start of the undoing of 5e). I use core books, Xanathar and Volo. I didn't get Mordenkainen because it didn't pass my interest threshold, but maybe one day it will. With adventures...

Well, I think the OP is trying to make the already existing gapfilling material more interesting and usable, so it's a thumb up from me :)

I endorse this! Pairing it with a short rest fits well both in 5e framework and with the narrative of being a book.

I like the idea especially because of the randomness. You didn’t tell how long it takes to read a book in order to activate the benefit.

This limitation simply absolutely makes no sense.

Upper planes might be useless for combat encounters (except as you say in case of invasion - also including PCs being the invaders) but they are certainly not useless for adventures. You can have a whole adventure without combat, therefore you can have a whole adventure in an upper plane. Or you...

I always answer WotC's surveys, but in that case I think my answers were probably all "I don't know" because my general feedback was that for me a bastion system was utterly useless, not because I want to deny my PCs to get a stronghold if they want one, but because I absolutely don't want rules...

You make a very good point... D&D has long been full of "handwave items" or abilities that can totally negate the need to worry about one limitation or resource management aspect. The fact that those handwave items are treated as players' entitlements (even if at a cost) instead of being first...

I mostly agree. On the bright side, Darkvision usually has a range limit that normal vision does not have. That actually means that even creatures with Darkvision sometime want light sources. Guards and sentinels with darkvision may still largely prefer to see an approaching foe long before it...

This is tricky... I would make the decision of saying that healing/restoration spells only cures afflictions that occurred at some point, but cannot fix you when there's nothing to fix. So if someone is born blind and never had eyesight, those spells wouldn't change it, in the same way that they...

It turns a creature with exceptional ecology into another case of not so exceptional.

I really don't think that's the case. It's a fantasy game, and trying to explain everything in real-life ecology is the real "lacking" (in fantasy ideas). Which doesn't mean that everything must be unexplained. Just that not everything must be explained. Dryads may have tits just because...

I am not sure if I understood... did you simply call for one dice roll (ability/skill checks) in each encounter without any player's input, and if successful you gave out the clue, or if failed you gave a penalty (in the form of an additional difficulty)? There are players who do not like...

Yes, why?

What I really do not like, is the idea of bringing creatures to comply with a "regular ecology". Adding males to female-only creatures (or viceversa) seems on the surface to add diversity, but instead it decreases diversity across different creatures. I prefer having some creatures that defy...

I do not think there is anything you need to think in advance. IIRC 3.5 changed monsters spacings but I don't remember if it changed any of those others: if that's the case then either versions of spacing just works identically. If they did change something in reach, AoOs etc. I am still quite...

For what it's worth, my opinion on changing from "races" to "species" is that it is a minor improvement. "Races" didn't bother me much because I was always seeing them as "species" in practice anyway, and calling them races had the small advantage that humans as a whole were the "human race" and...

I do not feel we have a serious problem with the species naming, but I do feel we have a serious problem with the news, mainstream or not.

First time I played was BECMI (with some house rules) and the only character I could play was a Dwarf because we had to roll ability scores in order and each class had ability scores requirements, and I think I didn't qualify for anything else.

My goals are only to finish running the Ravenloft adventure I have pending with friends and then continue our long-term Forgotten Realms family game. I am not planning anything else, and neither I am looking forward to anything being published.